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Adam:
You may need the advice of legal eagle who specializes in copywrite and
intellectual issues. You might check with Equis as to what they do when they
include someone's published indicator in the Metastock list of indicators.
My understanding is that the material has been published in the public
domain. Anyone can use limited parts of the contents without paying
royalties; as long as you give full credit to Charles Drummond for the
original formulas. On this web site contributors have posted formulas based
on materials published in various copywrite books, such as those by DeMark,
Raske, and others.
Remember the difference between research and plagiarism is whether you give
credit to your sources or not.
Learned journals (professional journals) seem to be a bit fussier about
this. If you use any figure or diagram in a paper, that has been published
elsewhere, they frequently require that you get the written permission of
the original publisher. This can get a bit ridiculous especially if the
Federal government was the original publisher as Uncle Sam rarely if ever
copywrites publications.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Hefner <vonhef@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:35 PM
Subject: Question....
Any legal minds here? I have been learning a trading method, and have since
developed an
"Expert Advisor" and MetaStock code to go along with it. My question deals
with sharing this
Code with others... for example here is a statement from there web page:
Any formulae presented are copyrighted. .... Copyright © 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999 Charles Drummond
"Drummond Geometry", "PL", "P&L", "Point and Line" copyright by Charles
Drummond. All rights reserved.
I did learn a method developed by Drummond, but all of my code is my own
work, so my question is:
What are my limitations in sharing my MetaStock work? I have no intentions
of selling this, nor actively
teaching others how to use it.... but I don't mind sharing the MetaStock
code (If it wont get me into trouble).
Thanks,
Adam Hefner
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